A) This is a tragedy B) Let's be serious - this could send the election off the rails

[JDPriestly]

21. Yes. Neither Romney nor Obama has all the facts yet.

Was this a government-condoned attack on our diplomatic missions?

Was this a matter of a few rebels in Egypt and Libya trying to push their countries to war in the Middle East?

Yet Romney has an opinion about how it should be handled.

Mr. Romney, in diplomacy, things move slowly. You get the facts first. You don't just accept superficial and obvious explanations. We are dealing either with rogue criminals in otherwise friendly states or with challenges to war or maybe something in between like factions within countries dickering for power with one of them trying to show how tough it is. (Sound familiar?)

We do not have the troops in place to invade Libya and Egypt while fighting in Afghanistan. Any human being would know that.

Romney has just revealed his ignorance about diplomacy and foreign policy. This is not a leveraged buyout. This is flesh-and-blood, destroy-the-world reality.

Obama will get information that is accurate as possible before taking any retaliatory action. And then he will weigh his choices carefully with the help of military and diplomatic and intelligence experts. Romney does not seem to have much ability or training in diplomacy.

Our first goal should be to move the governments in Egypt and Libya to condemn these actions. That way we can tell whether we support those governments or hold them responsible. The murders in Libya may actually have some relationship to the fact that certain Libyan officials are being tried for squandering money related to compensating victims in the Lockerbie attack. So the civil dissension and the clean-up of the former government in Libya could be behind these attacks -- acts to embarrass and isolate the current government? Or perhaps acts instigated by the current government to gain the loyalty of the Gadhafi hold-outs? These questions and lots more like them must be answered before the US can act. Until then, the wise diplomat tries to avoid further violence.

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Two former senior Libyan officials are on trial accused of squandering $2.7 billion in public money meant to compensate families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing.

http://news.yahoo.com/former-libyan-officials-lockerbie-linked-trial-211300280.html

Also -- there are still Gadhafi hold-outs in Libya, so the people who killed our embassy personnel could be tied to them.

Libya's interim president has visited a mountain town controlled by fighters loyal to slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi in a reconciliation bid aimed at reintegrating it with the rest of the country, officials said.

Bani Walid, a town of some 100,000 residents some 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Tripoli, was the last stronghold for Gadhafi loyalists, falling in October 2011 days after the leader was killed by revolutionary forces.

But Gadhafi loyalists rose up again in January and retook the town, expelling ex-rebels and dozens of their family members. It remains isolated from the rest of Libya, highlighting the weakness of a central government that lacks strong security forces to impose authority on the numerous local militia groups which dominate much of the country.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libyan-officials-lockerbie-linked-trial-17203800#.UFCLDa7AIug

We have to wait until we have all the facts. Surely Romney can figure THAT out.